Each course includes 30 contact hours. Participants are expected to prepare the required course material in advance.

Course readers will be made available to participants two months before classes begin. Each course will also include a take-home exercise that must be handed in within two months of the end of the Summer School. The programme includes 2 exams, which will be taken the final two days of the Summer School. A postgraduate certificate will be awarded after successful completion of the two exams and the two exercises.